Wrong turn puts driver on the underground rails!

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Tue Nov 28, 7:58 AM ET

 

LISBON (Reuters) - A Portuguese pensioner caused mild commuter chaos

in the city of Oporto this week when he unwittingly drove his car

into the underground train network, Portuguese newspapers reported

Tuesday.

 

Trains were suspended after security cameras clocked the disoriented

driver sailing past a station through the railway tunnels meant for

underground trains.

 

" I didn't even know there was an underground in Oporto, " daily 24

horas quoted the pensioner, who was in Portugal's second city to

visit friends when he took the wrong turn.

 

The unnamed driver entered the underground by an access road marked

with no entry signs and reached the rails along a tunnel used for

emergencies, papers said.

 

" It must have been because he was distracted or due to negligence as

the underground is clearly marked, " 24 horas quoted an underground

official as saying.

 

The driver stopped his car after he had gone about a kilometer along

the tunnels. Emergency services later removed the car.